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Katherine Fusco
Employment Assistant Professor of English. University of Nevada. August 2012Senior Lecturer in English. Vanderbilt University, Fall 2009-. Assistant Director, Writing Studio. Vanderbilt University, Fall 2008-. Lecturer in English. Vanderbilt University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009. Education Ph.D. Department of English, Vanderbilt University, June 2008. Dissertation: Time Material: Narration and Temporality in Silent Film and American Naturalism Committee: Cecelia Tichi and Paul Young (Co-Chairs), Deak Nabers, and Greg Horowitz (outside reader). Department of English, Vanderbilt University, August 2004. Thesis: Abstraction, Liability, and Monstrous Incorporation: The New Corporation in Frank Norriss The Octopus. Directed by Deak Nabers Summa cum laude. State University of New York at Geneseo, May 2003. Progress Without People: Time, Narrative, and Naturalism in Silent Film and U.S. Literature, 1895-1915. This project reconsiders representations of time in modernity. I argue that narrative innovations in naturalist novels and early films respond to cultural anxieties about time in industrial modernity. I position naturalism as the worldview engaged by a variety of turn-of-the-century time management techniques, and I argue that the cinema developed its narrative norms in response to the naturalist conception of temporal progress as a limit on human freedom. Kelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday (Under Contract at University of Illinois Press) Co-written with Nicole Seymour, this project argues that Reichardts cinema is animated by two seemingly-opposed concepts, emergency and the everyday. Indeed, the content of her films can be alternately described as either disasters or non-events, depending on ones viewpoint. Through our readings, we reframe the concept of emergency, to consider its shared root with emergence: the slowly unfolding, or the barely perceptible. Following from the sense that emergencies are both accumulative and slow to unfold, we argue that living through emergency may in fact be an everyday experience.

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Publications Articles and Essays The Actress Experience: Cruel Knowing and the Death of the Picture Personality in Black Swan and The Girlfriend Experience (Forthcoming at Camera Obscura) Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody. Forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion Woody Allen. Eds. Peter Bailey and Sam Girgus. Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norriss Influence on D.W. Griffiths Narrative Development from A Corner in Wheat to The Birth of a Nation. Adaptation. 3.2 (September 2010): 132-154. Systems Not Men: Producing People in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland. Studies in the Novel. 41.4 (Winter 2009): 418-434. Brute Time: Temporal Representation in Vandover and the Brute and the Actuality Film Studies in American Naturalism. 4.1 (Summer 2009): 2240. Class, at Vanderbilt? Breaking the Silence at an Elite Institution. Class on Campus. Spec. issue of Diversity & Democracy. 11.3 (Fall 2008): 14. Articles Under Review Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupacs Live Performance at Coachella (Under Review) Living Dead Girls: Lindsay Lohans Marilyn Monroe (Under Review) Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention And Representations of Male Reading in Silent Film (Under Review) Reviews Rev. of The Financier. Critical Edition, by Theodore Dreiser. Ed. Roark Mulligan. Studies in American Naturalism. 5.1 (Summer 2010): 97-100. Rev. of The Femme Fatale in American Literature, by Ghada Suleiman Sasa. Studies in American Naturalism. 4.2 (Winter 2009): 178-180. Rev. of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture, Ed. by Gary Totten. Studies in American Naturalism. 3.2 (Winter 2008): 186-188. 2

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Perfect Vehicle. Rev. of Howard Hawks: Interviews, Ed. Scott Breivold. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. 37.2 (Fall 2007): 108-109. Selected Presentations Conference Presentations Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupacs Live Performance at Coachella. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL. March 2013. Authentic Cartier and Paste Kunst: Better Travel through Brand Names, Cinematic Esperanto, and Anita Looss Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012. Famous Historical Names like Coty and Cartier: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Vernacular Modernisms New Authenticity. Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas. October 2012. Squashing the Bookworm: Male Readers in Silent Film. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Boston, MA. March 2012. Taking Naturalism to the Moving Picture Show. Modern Language Association Conference. Seattle, WA. January 2012. Time Made Visible: Taylorism, The Gilbreths, and the Early Cinema's Efficiency Aesthetics. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. March 2011. Motes and the Movies: D.W. Griffiths Encounter with Frank Norriss Naturalist Vision.South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2009. Brute Time: Temporal Representation in Vandover and the Brute and Actuality Film. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. May 2009. Griffith and the Historical Event: Determinism, Sentimentality, and the Limits of Narration. Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, IL. March 2007. Working-Class Voices in the Writing Studio. Southeast Writing Centers Association Conference. Nashville, TN. February 2007.

Early Narrative Cinema and the Historic Moment: Irreversibility and the Archive. Film and History Conference. Dallas, TX. November 2006. Fruit out of Season: The Standardization of Childbirth in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. Louisville, KY. February 2006. Invited Talks Life after the PhD. The Graduate School .Vanderbilt University. February 2011. As an invited panelist, I presented a talk on balancing research, teaching, and administrative duties post-graduation. What to Do with May Term? The Ohio State University. May 2010. During OSUs transition to a semester-based calendar, the Universitys Center for Teaching invited me to campus to present strategies for humanities faculty facing short summer terms and to meet with University administrators to discuss methods to support May term teachers. Panels Organized Touring for Culture: U.S. Tourists and the Formation of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century Panel Organizer. American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 2012. Kelly Reichardt Panel Organizer and Co-Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. March 2012. Seminars Hard Boiled Abortion: Terminating Extra Lives in Horace McCoys They Shoot Horses Dont They? Seminar on Modernism and Efficiency. Modernist Studies Association. Las Vegas. October 2012. A Prize for Ezra Pound: Existentialism, New Criticism, and the Bollingen Award. Seminar on Administration. Modernist Studies Association, Victoria. November 2010. An Exploration of Naturalist Film Style, Seminar on Recording Modernism, Modernist Studies Association, Nashville. November 2008. Crisis of Creation: Masculine Motherhood and the Displacement of the Female Body, Seminar on Tropes of Embodiment in Modernist Cultural Production, Modernist Studies Association, Chicago. November 2005. Honors and Awards 4

Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Fall 2012. Dissertation Year Fellowship, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2008. Vanderbilt Graduate School Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2007. Class in the Classroom Scholarship, Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, 2006. Arts & Science Summer Research Award, Vanderbilt University, 2005. Pedagogical Training Teaching Certificate Program, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, Fall 2006Spring 2008. Teaching Texts: The Hard Stuff of Reading, Summer Seminar, the Center for Ethics at Vanderbilt University, May 2007. Teaching Film Seminar Series, Vanderbilt University, March-April 2007. Class in the Classroom, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, July 2006. Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Courses English 451b: American Literature. Spring 2013. English 303: Introduction to Criticism and Theory. Spring 2013 English 303: Introduction to Criticism and Theory. Fall 2012. Core Humanities 203: American Experiences and Constitutional Change (TA). Fall 2012 Graduate Students Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University Introduction to Film Studies. Spring 2012. William Lombardi Jo Landis

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks. A non-credit bearing series for graduate students, Spring 2012. Literature and Intellectual History: What is an Author? Fall 2011. In this course, students interrogate trends in American conceptions of authorship, examining changing valuations of matters such as biography, identity, and authorial intent throughout the history of American literary criticism. Primary texts include The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Pale Fire, In Cold Blood, and Mumbo Jumbo. Representative American Writers: Violence and American Literature. Spring 2011. Students in this class used historicist and theoretical approaches to understanding violence in U.S. culture as they considered the aesthetics and ethics of violence in the contexts of race, gender, the state, and the body. Although the class focused primarily on twentiethcentury works, particularly postmodern and contemporary literature, students examined these works in relation to early, more canonical works (for example, Nathanael West against Theodore Roosevelt, Chester Himes against Frederick Douglass, and Allen Ginsberg against Walt Whitman). Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Fall 2010. Students explored the development of the novel alongside the rise of a publishing industry. Using a range of authors, from Hawthorne to Dickinson, students interrogated the tension between desires for a national literature and commitments to individualism, and investigated competing accounts of the purposes American literature should serve. A three-week unit on Moby Dick centered the course. Literary and Cultural Analysis: American Modernism. Spring 2010. Students in this class read works of U.S. modernist literature alongside a variety of modernist manifestos, declarations, and works of literary criticism. I paired selections from Goldman, Kolocotroni and Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents with Waste Land, Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, Hemingways Rises, Toomers Cane, Odetss Waiting for Lefty, and Prefer Blondes. Literary and Cultural Analysis: Gilded Age Americans. Fall 2009. In this introductory-level, writing-intensive class students read primary works including Frank Norriss McTeague, Stephen Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, W.E.B. DuBoiss The Souls and Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wall-Paper, 6

Taxidous Eliots The The Sun Also Looss Gentlemen

Cranes of Black Folk,

while notebooks scholarship. Lecturer, Vanderbilt University

supplementing their reading with individualized research that included primary documents as well as literary

Introduction to Literary Criticism: Literary Theory and American Popular Culture. Spring 2009. Literary and Cultural Analysis: Revising American Modernism. Fall 2008. Composition: Everythings an Argument. Summer 2008. Graduate Instructor, Vanderbilt University Composition (2 sections) (topic: Working-Class America). Fall 2006. Drama: Forms and Techniques (topic: The Ethics of Outsidership). Fall 2005. Prose Fiction: Forms and Techniques (topic: Imagining Community). Fall 2004, Spring 2005. Professional Experience Employment AP Reader. English Literature. Summers, 2007-Present. Selected Programs and Events Organized Dissertation Writing Retreat, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University, June 2010, 2011. Vanderbilt Undergraduate Writing Symposium, Vanderbilt University, March 2009, 2010, 2011. Dissertation Revision Workshop, The Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, February 2010. Dissertation and Prospectus Workshops, The Graduate School, Vanderbilt University, October 2009, 2010. Job Market Writing Group, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2009, 2010.

Faculty Conference on Writing and Discipline, Vanderbilt University, March 2009. On Writing Speakers Series, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2008-. Making English Papers Matter: Designing Effective Essay Assignments, English Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University, November 2007. First-Year Writing Forum, Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University, April 2007. First-Year English Graduate Student Conference, Vanderbilt University, March 2006. Service Service to the Profession Reviewer. FILM textbook. Cengage, 2012. Consultant. Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Gale, Cengage, 2011. Peer Reviewer, Studies in American Literature. Peer Reviewer, Studies in The Novel. Institutional Service Job Market Workshop, University of Nevada, Fall 2012-. Literature Committee, University of Nevada, Fall 2012-. Faculty VUceptor, Vanderbilt Visions orientation program for first-year students, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2010-. Discussion Leader. Faculty-Led Interactive Cinematic eXplorations (FLiCX), Vanderbilt University in partnership with the Belcourt Theatre. Led discussions on films including Lawrence of Arabia, Winchester 73, Valentino, Wendy and Lucy, The Godfather, and Gonzo. August 2008-. Guest speaker and respondent. Honors Scholarship Writers Workshop, Vanderbilt University, August 2008-2010. Rheney Lecture Series Coordinator, Speaker: Cyrus Patell, Fall 2006. Orientation and Recruitment Co-chair, English Graduate Student Association, 2004.

Service to the Community Teacher. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Reno, Spring 2013. Led three class sequence on film noir. Research and Teaching Interests 19th-century U.S. Literature 20th-century U.S. Literature Film Studies Intellectual History Narrative Theory Working-Class Studies Memberships American Studies Association Modernist Studies Association Modern Language Association Society for Cinema and Media Studies References Jennifer Holt Director of the Writing Studio, Vanderbilt University. Email: jennifer.r.holt@Vanderbilt.Edu. Deak Nabers Associate Professor of English, Brown University. Email: Drayton_Nabers@brown.edu. Mark Schoenfield Professor of English and Department of English Chair, Vanderbilt University. Email: mark.schoenfield@vanderbilt.edu. Cecelia Tichi William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Vanderbilt University. Email: cecelia.tichi@vanderbilt.edu. Paul Young Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies, Vanderbilt University. Email: paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu.